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Questions tagged [remote-access]

Questions about accessing a system or network from a remote computer or location. Consider using a more specific tag for your particular tool, e.g. VNC.

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What's your favorite ticketing system?

I'm in the market for a ticketing system and I'm curious what everyone else is using. I'd like to welcome everyone to post their favorite ticketing system and the reason they like it so much. My criteria in selecting a ticketing system is: Should…
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Turn on Home Computer Remotely

When I am traveling I would like the ability to remote into my home computer from my laptop rather than transfer all of my tools/data to my laptop. However I don't want to leave my home computer on 24/7 while I am gone (also there is risk of a power…
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How do you manage servers in a different town

We have servers in two different locations in our town. We connect to them through ssh to do almost everything that we need. But whenever we need to re install a server, we need to drive to the hosting location to do it. This works well for now,…
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Alternative to Dell's iDRAC?

Are there any alternatives to Dell's DRAC? I need remote console access but $349 to upgrade from the built-in iDRAC Express to iDRAC Enterprise seems very steep.
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customer wont provide ssh access - ftp only

Eh, here is my problem: I am working in a webdevelopment agency (thats a problem but not the real problem, read on). Most of the time I choose the live server myself when creating a new website project. But now the customer already has a "server"…
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Open Source GoToAssist Alternative

We're trying to trim our budget and one of the items that I believe we can trim is our GoToAssist account. Granted it is not that expensive but I have to think there is a lot of open source RA software out there. Of course I am aware of VNC but I…
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Remote control a PC on http/https with no user intervention?

I need to remote control a PC that is behind a SOHO ADSL router (netgear or similar). I do not have access to the password for his router so I cannot make changes on it. I can install software on his PC though. What remote control software is best…
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How to share a computer between several remote users simultaneously?

There is a highly specced computer (Intel based) we want to be used by several users, to run certain software (the software requires a lot of CPU and RAM, which is the reason they are not running it on their own computers but on this more powerful…
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Remote Desktop and VPN Monitoring solution

We have 20 users who do support for multiple customers. The issue is that when someone is logged into a customer via a VPN or Remote Desktop Session we have no way of telling unless we kick them out of the session. I am looking for a way to see the…
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Securing a remote team

I'm organizing a full team to do a remote project, yet my client want to keep his programs on the Hush Hush and make sure that it would not be possible to transmit code to his competitors. He also believes that in order to have successful team, they…
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Remotely firing off adplus.exe on Win2k3

I've built a nice little widget that lets our Command Center people launch ADPlus.exe to capture crash dumps on failing IIS 6 App Pools. It's doing a bang-up job for us. They capture the forensics without any deep knowledge of WinDBG, and I get to…
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Boot a Dell Server with no Monitor

I have a few new dell r210s with windows 2008 server installed on them but I accidentally brought a DVI cable instead of a vga cable for the monitor. Is there anyway to remote into them without a DRAC installed? (RDC is not setup on them yet because…
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Any way to access an IP-restricted server remotely (if I have access to an allowed machine)?

I remote a fair amount at my new job. Our production and test SQL Servers are IP-restricted to our development machines. I have RDP access, so most of the time I just RDP in when I want to remote. If you've used RDP, you know how awful slow that…
shalamaluhad
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Remotely updating firmware aka simple transparent vpn

I have clients all over the world that will occasionally need software/firmware updates to the hardware I have provided them. They have no IT staff or networking know-how, and I'm 10 years out from my last networking class, so I'm rusty but not…
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Accessing Files Remotely ideas?

So we have a client that's just been setup on a domain with Shared Folders on a server (They currently use DropBox but will be migrating these to the Shared Folders on the server). Now the tricky part is 2 of the staff members are located in another…
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